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(NewsUSA) - Toys for Tots is more than a Christmastime charity - thanks to a new partnership between the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and Good360.Toys for Tots, the 74-year national charitable program run by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, is launching a DoGoodNow campaign to bring toys, books, and games to families in need … Continued
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\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
The beverage awards which is in its fourth year, closed nominations to the general public and all beverage companies in February this year.
Under the theme, 'Inspiring excellence in Ghana's beverage industry' the awards aim to promote both local and foreign beverages as well as the participation of small-scale beverage enterprises in Ghana.
In a lead-up to this year's awards, Mr Boateng said a beverage industry tour was organised for the GBA board to visit nominated companies to familiarise with their work and practices, and said, \"This initiative is one of the new activities which was introduced in the build-up to the 2019 Awards Night.\"
Mr Boateng said GBA this year had introduced two new categories to the awards, namely Local Beverage Advertisement of the Year and International Liqueur of the Year.
The Local Beverage Advert of the Year Award goes to the brand in the year under review that is enjoying massive public appeal with its creative publicity.
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If the shelves at your home that you’ve been staring at (since stay-at-home orders were put in place) are a bit bare, Rolls Royce has you covered.
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The mini Cullinan comes equipped with working lights, 40,000 exterior paint choices, a perfectly replicated engine, and the buttery leather you’d expect from the Rolls brand.
… between the DR Congo and African-Americans. By one estimate, 25 percent … was the only place enslaved African-Americans were allowed to meet together …
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Voices of the Civil War Episode 7: The Day of the Big Gun Shoot
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www.fox.com By Nate Day | Fox News 50 Cent has changed his mind. Last week, the 45-year-old rapper made headlines when he encouraged fans to vote in favor of Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election. The suggestion came when 50 Cent - born Curtis Jackson - saw a news broadcast stating that some New York City residents will be taxed […]
NEW DELHI — Between April 1 and May 18, Delhi recorded 737,000 Covid-19 cases — more than the total number of cases recorded from the beginning of the pandemic till March 31, 2021. The health machinery was [...]
Koome told the committee that the bench issued a stay of execution to stop the board from paying Erad until the case was heard, saving public funds.
THE EDITOR: Based on existing scientific evidence, the risks associated with covid19 far outweigh those associated with vaccination. By all accounts, getting the jab is a far better decision than going without it as unvaccinated individuals risk getting affected by the full effects of the virus and its many variants.
Despite this, the vaccine-hesitant should not be quickly labelled away as innately stupid or foolish. This sort of rhetoric may wrongly cast them as lost causes whose viewpoints are not liable to change. Additionally, there may be legitimate and systemic reasons for the distrust, uncertainty and anxiety that they describe feeling.
For one, trust in government institutions, especially healthcare, has been poor even before the pandemic. A 2016 UWI study found that public confidence in TT's national healthcare system was remarkably low, with less than 50 per cent of those surveyed expressing trust in it.
There has also been a tremendous amount of mixed messaging about covid19, as people are being bombarded by scientific information locally and from abroad. And it is not just 'fake news' that is the problem. Established outlets like CNN and the BBC and even international organisations like the WHO have all changed their stances on numerous issues related to covid19.
While this is normal and should be expected given the ever-changing nature of the pandemic, this onslaught of conflicting information can make anyone feel confused, distressed and doubtful about which choice is the right one.
People should not feel morally right in engaging in ridicule of vaccine-hesitant individuals either, justifying it as a way of shaming them into getting the jab. If you 'trust the science,' the science shows that shaming simply does not work.
Mocking and condemning people for making the choice to remain unvaccinated may exacerbate an already fraught situation. For oppression in all its forms breeds resistance. As has happened in other countries, the hesitant may take the negative public rhetoric directed towards them to heart, causing them to double down in their decision not to vaccinate. It becomes more of a symbolic or emotional issue than one based on practicality.
People's feelings and perceptions should therefore not be pushed aside, but openly embraced so their concerns can be addressed, and their doubts alleviated. People should feel safe to express their doubts, without being mocked and made fun of. Those who are hesitant are more likely to respond to constructive dialogue than outright criticism.
There may indeed still be people who continue to remain hesitant no matter what is said or done, but at least there is still the possibility they may change their minds, especially if they have not been tainted by the pain of ridicule and the resentment that comes with it.
ALEEM MAHABIR
via e-mail
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Born on March 5, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, George Washington Collins graduated from Waller High School and immediately joined the United States Army in 1943 at the age of 18. He rose to the rank of sergeant and was discharged in 1946. Collins attended the Central Y.M.C.A. College in Chicago, receiving his degree in 1954. He later earned a business law degree from Northwestern University. Collins worked as a Cook County (Chicago) deputy sheriff and then served as secretary to Alderman Benjamin Lewis of Chicago’s Twenty-Fourth Ward. He was later an administrative assistant to the director of the Chicago Board of Health. In 1958 George Collins married Cardiss Robertson formerly of St. Louis.
In 1969 George Collins campaigned in a special election for the Congressional seat of Sixth District Representative Daniel J. Ronan, a Democrat, who had died in office. Collins won the special election and was reelected to a full term in November 1970, representing the reapportioned and newly named Seventh Congressional District. Collins, a Democrat, was appointed to the House Public Works and Government Operations Committees. He surprised many political observers by supporting Republican President Richard Nixon’s controversial plan to provide direct federal payments to low-income families with children, thus bypassing the state and local bureaucracies that traditionally ran the welfare programs.
Collins also sought extra federal funding for teachers through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and to reform the Federal Housing Administration which ran public housing projects in major cities across the nation. He championed legislation to assist low-income homeowners who were defrauded by speculators, real estate brokers, and home repair companies. He also introduced a bill that gave free tax preparation service to low and moderate-income taxpayers.
George Collins was killed in an airplane crash near Chicago’s Midway Airport on December 8, 1972 while on a trip to buy toys for the Twenty-fourth Ward’s
Explosives have gone missing from the largest Marines training base in the U.S. at around the same time the military is being investigated for right-wing extremists and white supremacists in its ranks.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In particular, African Americans, Latinx Americans and other people of color are disproportionately, devastatingly impacted by COVID-19 and are also disproportionately entrapped with homelessness across America. The New York City homeless rates are at the tipping point of this growing national problem.
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It is not often that a funeral oration attracts nationwide attention. But during the service for the late Ricardo Fagundes at the Guyana Motor Racing
On June 6, 1950, Frank Petersen enlisted in the Navy. At the age of 20, he was the first Afro-American to be named a naval aviator in the Marine Corp. He was also the first African American to command a fighter squadon, a fighter air group, an air wing, and a major base.
Lt. Gen. Frank. Petersen, was considered by his friends to be a leader and a gentleman in his affairs.
Fifth Third Bancorp has appointed former P&G Chief Information Officer Linda W. Clement-Holmes as an independent director effectively immediately
What’s the future for Ben Simmons?
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Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., NASA’s first permanent black administrator, was born to Charles Frank and Ethel Bolden, both teachers, on August 19th, 1946 in Columbia, South Carolina. He rose to the rank of Major General in the United States Marine Corps and was a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut before being named to head the U.S. space agency.
Bolden graduated from C.A. Johnson High School in Columbia, S.C. in 1964. In 1968, he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Science from the United States Naval Academy. He completed a Master’s degree in Systems Management from the University of Southern California in 1977.
After completing his undergraduate studies at the United States Naval Academy, Bolden accepted a commission as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. After completing his flight training, he became a Naval Aviator in May of 1970. From 1972 to 1973, Bolden flew more than 100 flights into North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia while assigned at the Royal Thai Air Base Nam Phong, Thailand.
Upon returning to the United States in 1973, Bolden held various Marine Corps assignments at the Marine Corps Air Stations in Los Angeles and El Toro, California. In 1979, Bolden graduated from the United States Naval Test Pilot School and was then assigned to the Naval Air Test Center’s System’s Engineering and Strike Aircraft Test Directorates.
In 1980, Bolden was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA and became an astronaut in 1981. During his time at NASA, Bolden went into space four times between 1986 and 1994, commanding two of the missions.
Bolden returned to the Marine Corps in 1994 as Deputy Commandant of Midshipmen at the Naval Academy. Shortly afterward he was promoted to Deputy Commanding General of I Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF). From February to June of 1998, Bolden was the Commanding General of I MEF in Operation Desert Thunder, Kuwait. In July of 1998, Bolden was promoted to Major General and assumed the position of Deputy Commander
Murkomen said, if the bottom-up strategy is working elsewhere, it needs to be contextualized to the local level.
Dr. Winston Clifton Hackett was the first African-American physician in Arizona. He was also the founder of the Booker T. Washington Memorial Hospital, the first hospital in Phoenix which served the African-American community. Hackett was born in Tyler, Texas where he received his primary and secondary education. He became a student of the Tuskegee University. []
[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- Government needs to open up on the recent allocation of the Shs1.2trillion International Monetary Fund's Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) and invest in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic to boost economic recovery, according to civil society organisations.
Oakland city government declares war on the unemployed. An overstatement? Not really.
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By Diana Danis Service: Women Who Serve Military Women’s Coalition, Sexual Violence Policy Chair The year 2020 has rained down fire, fear, floods, as well as freaky behavior and that’s just on the military installations. The down fall also includes child pornography, human trafficking rings, and a bunch of murders and missing troops. High unemployment, […]
While the pandemic has played havoc with the plans of many paddlers, 2018 Dusi Canoe Marathon champion Jordan Peek says it has given her the opportunity to fall back in love with paddling.
Sports Illustrated names Serena Williams the 2015 Sportsperson of the Year. The tennis superstar dominated the sport by winning three major titles and completing her second “Serena Slam” – she won four consecutive Grand Slam titles dating back to the 2014 U.S. Open. Williams won 53 of her 56 matches, was ranked No. 1 every week for the second consecutive year, and is now one short of Steffi Graf’s record of 22 Grand Slam singles titles in the Open Era. The 34-year-old Williams accomplished all this while battling a string of injuries, producing one of the greatest late-career runs in the history of any sport. Williams was also a force off the court, making a powerful statement by returning to play a tournament at Indian Wells, Calif., for the first time since 2001, when she was greeted there with boos and, her family has charged, racist slurs. Williams used her return as an opportunity to speak out against injustice and called her decision to play at Indian Wells her “greatest moment in tennis.”
Williams’s status as a global icon was never more clear than it was in 2015. She appeared in movies and TV shows, guest-edited magazines and published essays and counts many of the world’s most influential people as her friends. She has utilized her broad platform to advocate for racial justice, gender equality and equal access to education around the world. As SI’s Sportsperson of the Year Williams joins an elite group that includes such icons as Muhammad Ali, Arthur Ashe, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Billie Jean King, Joe Montana and Jack Nicklaus. In addition, this year’s announcement marks the official renaming of the honor as the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year award.
“This year was spectacular,” said Serena Williams. “For Sports Illustrated to recognize my hard work, dedication and sheer determination with this award gives me hope to continue on and do better. As I always say, it takes a village— not just one person. This is not just an accomplishment for me, but for my whole team and all my fans. I
